One of them left in 1866, but the other remained, and was the best scholar in the school.

Both possessed more than ordinary intelligence and amiability, and for more than two years had been heartily devoted to Christ.

"The younger who had left the school," says the report of the mission, "was taken, a few days since, into a room where many of her relatives and a priest had assembled, to extort from her a renunciation of her faith, and was told that she would either have to give up, or die; that they would give her no peace so long as she persisted in her present course.
But the Lord sustained her.

They resorted to entreaty, and besought her merely to make the sign of submission, telling her that she need not in her heart change her belief.

But their seductions were as unavailing as their threats.